General Knowledge MCQs
Topic Notes: General Knowledge
MCQs and preparation resources for competitive exams, covering important concepts, past papers, and detailed explanations.
Plato
- Biography: Ancient Greek philosopher (427–347 BCE), student of Socrates and teacher of Aristotle, founder of the Academy in Athens.
- Important Ideas:
- Theory of Forms
- Philosopher-King
- Ideal State
61
Arthur Dent is the bewildered human in which humorous sci-fi book?
Answer:
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Arthur Dent is swept off Earth in Douglas Adams’ 'The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy'.
62
Ender Wiggin is trained as a child military prodigy in which science-fiction novel?
Answer:
Ender’s Game
Ender Wiggin is the young strategic genius in Orson Scott Card’s 'Ender’s Game'.
63
Lyra Belacqua (also called Lyra Silvertongue) is the heroine of which fantasy series?
Answer:
His Dark Materials
Lyra is the central character in Philip Pullman’s 'His Dark Materials' trilogy.
64
Billy Pilgrim, who becomes 'unstuck in time', is the protagonist of which novel?
Answer:
Slaughterhouse-Five
Billy Pilgrim is the time-jumping hero of Kurt Vonnegut’s 'Slaughterhouse-Five'.
65
Jake Barnes, a war veteran and journalist, narrates which Hemingway novel?
Answer:
The Sun Also Rises
Jake Barnes narrates the lives of the 'lost generation' in 'The Sun Also Rises'.
66
Emma Bovary, dissatisfied with her provincial life, is the heroine of which novel?
Answer:
Madame Bovary
Emma Bovary is the title character of Gustave Flaubert’s 'Madame Bovary'.
67
Dorothea Brooke is a key character in which George Eliot novel?
Answer:
Middlemarch
Dorothea Brooke’s idealism is central to 'Middlemarch'.
68
Who is the unreliable narrator obsessed with a young girl in Nabokov’s 'Lolita'?
Answer:
Humbert Humbert
Humbert Humbert narrates his disturbing obsession in 'Lolita'.
69
George Milton is the caretaker and friend of which character in 'Of Mice and Men'?
Answer:
Lennie Small
George Milton travels and works with the mentally disabled Lennie Small.
70
Tom Joad is the central migrant worker in which John Steinbeck novel?
Answer:
The Grapes of Wrath
Tom Joad leads his family westward in 'The Grapes of Wrath'.